Lucknow, June 1 -- Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav on Monday alleged that the BJP is imposing an "election surcharge" on electricity bills to cover the trickery of the 2027 assembly elections.

''People will be shocked when they see their electricity bills from June. In fact, the BJP's commission on electricity bills has increased. The BJP government is cutting into the public's pockets by increasing inflation. Inflation is already at its peak under the BJP government, yet it continues to increase. The public is already suffering from inflation, and the BJP government is increasing it every day," he said in a statement here.

Akhilesh Yadav said, ''The BJP is increasing the prices of diesel, petrol, electricity, and gas cy...